A little scare

After my first blog I received some positive feedback but hadn't decided if I would ever do it again.  Later that night something a little scary happened that I thought I would share.

Late in the evening Monday night after posting my first blog about some of the challenges of being a parent my wife and experienced something a little scary.  She awoke from a dead sleep with severe abdominal pain, the pain would come in waves about every 10-15 minutes.  She is only approximately 32 weeks pregnant so naturally we were concerned that it was early labor.  She called her OB who ordered us to take her to the hospital immediately.  We had a neighbor come over to stay at the house as our daughter was sound asleep and off we went.

The nice thing about the hospital we use is that in the case of an emergency a pregnant woman is brought up immediately to the maternity ward and does not have to sit in the ER and wait to be triaged.  The doctor that did the initial diagnosis thought it was simply gas although the pain was bad enough to put my wife into tears.  She was a little ashamed at the thought that something like that could land her in the hospital.  I tried to comfort her telling her that when I was 17 I had severe abdominal pain that I mistook for gas, later that day I was rushed into an OR for an appendectomy.  Not taking any chances they put her through a barrage of tests.

The next day she was feeling much better, all the tests were negative.  Stress tests on the baby were fine, heart rate was strong.  We were finally discharged around 7:30 pm the next day.  They are insisting she have one last test after the baby is born to rule out something with the pancreas I do not remember what it was called but the test cannot be performed while she is expecting.  There was no official diagnosis given to us, and to be honest we just wanted to go home and didn't think about it until we left (common mistake of a patient).  I was asked to stay home to help her out with our daughter today to assure that my wife is doing better.

All in all everything worked out, the baby is fine, mama is fine, and dad is just a bit tired (did I mention the coffee machine in the maternity ward was broken and the cafeteria was closed).  For my clan mates that haven't seen me on in a little bit this is why.  Not that it matters from what I can see everyone is playing Crackdown, a game I don't plan on buying anyway.